The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-30


The water > i.ighc; nj Bismarck, Oak.
than ever before. Railroad commuDlca
ton is threatened There Is no longer any
doubt OF the drowning OF the jackson
family AT Painted W0ol.-i;thcT, mother
and two cli.dccm
In the Rhode Islam: House Of R@prcsen-
tatiYcS a resolution proposing m amcnti-
ment to the Constitution. aaoliSii'n& the
registry tax &rl;i property qualifications,
was unanimously passed.
st. Mary's Catholic. St p;tul's Episcopal,
ard First Presbyterian churches al New
burgh, \. y. We're entered by thieves on
last Tuesday night and The poor boxes IN
each robbed.
Maxwell Ernst Virgo an Engli>!lnan.
- years Of age. went violently iAsanei in ihg
Office Of y. T. Hemingway, Secretary OF
the y. VI. c. y. IN Chicago on SUNDAY
afternoon. He was addicted to gambling.
The President has appointed Oscar :.
Strauss. Of New York. to be "nvcy extra
ordinary and minister plcnil 'cntia!T Of
the United States 10 Turkey.
Al! the people Who knew al a1out Nr.
Beechcr without knowing anything about
him in reality are much surprised 10 learn
that he was proud Of his ancestry and early
poverty.
Nina Van Zandt. who Won tic prize for
sentimental itIiocy by marrying AAarch!S!
Spies by proxy, is occasionally permitted
to touch that hcro's fingcT-tips through the
grated door OF his cell.
Alfred sully made one deal without
dropping any cards the other day. his check
for $3.50 having been received by the New
York World, which has in hand the fund
for 4 national conservatory.
5. II. Baker. prominent real estate spec
ulator of Minneapolis. is wanted by his
friends about 100000 worth. All his
property is heavily mortgased and the
funds therefor are gone. Canada.
Congressman Wills, OF kentucky, says
President Cleveland has grown very rap
idly in the regard of Congress during the
last session, his veto OF the dependent pen
sion bill going far towards that end.
4 train on the Norfolk and Western
railroad went through Big Otter River
bridge, about twenty miles above Lynch
burg Thursday afternoon. II is stated that
eight persons were killed.
4 rain, Slec: and snow storm has pros
,rated the telegraph wires in all directions
from New York, and the transmission OF
dispatches is much delayed. Communica-
ton with the West is almost entirely cut OIL.
The United States government has
bought from the city of Charleston the
guard house property for sc, 600, whereon
to erect the new public building. he
guard house was wrecked by the earth.
quake last year.
Mrs. Cleveland unveiled The portrait Of
Mrs. Dolly" Madison Wednesday night.
The occasion was i charitable entertain
mcnt in aid of the Washington City Or.
phan Asylum. Mrs Madison was one OF
the six founders OF the institution.
The Missouri Legislature has adjourned
xjne die, but Governor Marmaduke notified
both houses that he would soon call them
together, in extra session, to enact laws TO
enforce the constitutional provisions II
reference to railroads.
There was L large meeting II Cooper
! Union, New York, Monday night under
the auspices of the National League. to
protest against the proposed cocrcive meas.
ure about to be introduced il the British
Parliament.
Whitaker Quake Church, at Buffalo,
Kansas, was blown to atoms by i giant
powder explosion Friday night. Frank
Van Meter was arrested. charged with hav,
ing committed the deed. Circumstances
are strong against him.
Walter T. Lawtop. i. now tranSpircs,
w;,s cntansled with a rich widow and only
the day before lie left. CounscllorS Thomp'
son & Ackley recorded 4 deed making ovel
to her some of Lawtons New jersey prop
crtv, in addition to his Harlem residence.
Fifteen Pinkerton men who have been on
duty night and day the past month on the
coal docks at Elizabeth. y. j.. have been
withdrawn. All the strikers reported for
work and, with but few exceptions, were
employed.
Philiperia Muth, aged eighteen Year, 4
bride Of scarcely two weeks. shot herself
dead on Monday in her room in New Gork.
The motive for the deed is wrapped in
mystery. Her husband is carpenter and
was absent from home.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York. scarcely
| givcs his constituents time C recover from
one surprise before treating them to another,
his latest political break being an I'M
qualified condemnation Of political assess
ments.
The announcement is made that the
Memphis and Little Rock railroad Will be
sold under foreclosure on April Is. JAY
Gould is said to be u heavy s,ockholdcr in
this road, and it is suspected that he will
be bidder at the sale.
A passenger train on the Baltimore and
! Philadelphia railroad cOllided with 4
through freight train at Leslie about >
| O'Clock Wednesday morning. and both
trains were badly wrecked and the locomo-
tives were entirely telescoped.
Ex-Governor Irwin. Of Iowa, says the
Republicans of that State will be for Ali
son in good faith, "Conkling would sup
port hirl, 4" he says, ''and believe in letting
Conkling be for the Republican nominee if
he wants to be.
The York .ige says that Nh Randall is
the most plainly dressed and the most hum
bly, housed member OF Congress at Wash
ington. and it has been said Of him that he
has had to remain indoors while 1 pair OF
bull.eyes were being inserted in tie seat OF
lis only pair Of brecches
There is conflict OF jurisdiction III Viz
ginia. Lawyer Wm. l.. Royal was fined
$3.50 by State court for intimidating L
grand jury. He refused TO pay the fine
and was committed 10 jail. lie intends TO
appeal to the Federal courts.
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